Showing posts with label sappy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sappy. Show all posts
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Senses are a funny thing. They can be so unimportant until they facilitate a memory or experience, making them so powerful. As winter has set in, I find my senses taking me back to a very beautiful place. Last winter, when I holed up for several months in my new house and loved on my snuggly newborn. Everything was so fresh..so exciting..so new. When the heat kicked on for the first time this winter, I was flooded with memories of Lyla and I by the sliding glass door watching it snow, or wrapped up in a blanket snuggling all day. It reminded me of all the emotions, feelings and experiences of those first few months being a mommy. The first time it snowed this year, I remembered late late nights when we'd be in the rocker watching the snow fall under the street light. It brings memories of peace and the warmest fuzziest feelings of nostalgia. I hope these memories flood me every time winter approaches as they will surely keep me warm. Babies really are the very best.
Monday, June 14, 2010
I honestly don't know if I ever thought I would make a post titled Mother's Day and have it be about me. I can't tell you how special, surreal and utterly happy it makes me to be a part of this exclusive club. Through my travels, bumps and bruises, I've learned that while it doesn't take too much to be a mother by definition, it takes a WHOLE lot to be a mother by practice. This day is colored differently for me than I thought it would be when I was younger. It means pain in a way...for all the people I now know and love, who aren't mother's in the traditional sense. It was also a pretty sad day for me, for awhile there. I guess it's all part of the process now...being that this day simply meant the world to me this year. I've learned that there's all kinds of moms out there, all deserving of celebration. I hope we can all honor those moms to cats and dogs, to plants, to their coworkers, to whatever. I think Mother's Day is a day to celebrate women. Period. We all deserve it right? So happy Mother's Day to all the beautiful women in the world.
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I had a great weekend of being pampered endlessly. Saturday I did lunch with my sisters and mom, and then we got gel toes. Sunday Todd did everything for me, spoiled me with a gift card to by expensive clothes (mostly guilt free) and some books for Lyla from an author I adore (he knows me too well..that I'd rather things for Lyla than me-lame but true). We also had a lovely dinner that night cooked by the men.
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Since becoming a mother, I appreciate the mother's in my world all the more (funny how that happens huh?) I feel like my mom was a super hero now. She did absolutely everything for our betterment. She faced so much during my childhood, and conquered it all, just for us.
I look at Todd's mom almost like a scientist would, trying to teach myself how become the mother that she is. I'm saving the rest of this for a post I plan to make about memorial day (It'll make sense I promise) so I'll stop there, but she is amazing.
.The end.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
It's funny how seemingly unimportant moments can hit you unexpectedly and remind you of just how beautifully amazing that moment is, making it monumental. This day, at the Washington City Park was one of them. I was putting sunscreen on Lyla for the first time. In that moment, where we were less than two years ago suddenly came flooding back to me. I was just struck by the fact that there I was, sitting there putting sunscreen on the beautiful chubby rolls of a baby I wondered if I would ever have. I am forever grateful for her, and these experiences to remind me to treasure every moment.......p.s. Thanks for dealing with me waxing philosophical from time to time :)
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